LOL! You've been brainwashed. Europeans made their wealth by their own skills. I could write paper showing you how you're wrong but I don't have time. The argument that Western powers were built on the backs of their non-white subjects is racist and plain wrong.
Western world took advantage on the so called third world civilizations by forcing them to accept the same cultural standards (education, work), while the local governments were serving the needs of the "Investors" and plant owners. In our modern world only one thing matters and that's money. This leads to the decline of cultural diversity and morality as we only accept an industrial based concept of life against other - technologically vise more productive but at the same more harmful ways to create our own needs. Just in the past 100 years the humanity made more damage on this Earth due to technological development. Literally 90% of our industrial cultural based needs are trash - each phones, cars and everything made to entertain our lives someday will lay somewhere among the Ocean's trash islands. What we create are unnecessary productions which tries to fade away the strong contrast between inside "spiritual" emptiness and materially richness.
Saying non-white subjects deserve credit for Western powers is a coping mechanism of (mostly white)people who don't want to admit in the last so many 100s of years Europeans have created better civilizations than anyone else. What you guys need to understand is there's nothing racist about that.
LOL! Are you serious? The modern world is awesome!! All we have to do is go to school, get a job, and live a rich life compared to earlier humans. The modern live is not comparable to the life of a slave.
how would you know that our actual civilization is better than the ones before? You can assume your actual life is better because you earn more money by work, but does this equal to freedom?
Some nations were better off living their lives without money and this still works in the so called non civilized communities.
We can't associate happiness and well being with net worth, when it's certainly just one of the many factors which influences the well being on a psychological point of view and we can't base this on the GDP growth.
More people become dependent on working than ever before and real estate prices are higher than it was before in most states. Most people can buy a home in the Western world by hard working and debt and it's often goes for a lifelong to pay all debts back, so the so called freedom works as long as someone has a well paid job and net worth. Sounds perfect? Most people don't think so
There's a lot more to America than slavery and racism. We got to where we are mostly through other means. The North, the part that had no slaves, was and is the heart of our economy. Slaves didn't give us most of our money. Slaves didn't give us half of the North American continent, slaves didn't give the industrial revolution, slaves didn't give us the world's best military. Slaves are a big (sad)part of our history but there's a lot more to our country and a lot more which makes us successful.
Radicle leftists like you will only divide our country not unite it. You ignite racial and class tension. You guys are revolutionists. You're radicle. You're racist, you're full of hate.
The position Black Americans are in is to a large extent the result of racism. But...racism doesn't force them to commit crimes at a higher rate
Most millionaire and upper class families had roots in America that owned slaves or took part in the Colonial business, I'm asking what's the actual chance for a Middle Class American to make it big to not consider working and have a net worth over a millions of dollars? The so called American Dream only seems to exist in Hollywood and most people seem to stuck in a 22 trap to work for a system which has based it's own existence on a debt based system controlled by a few.
Capitalism seem to be a better alternative than Communism, but it only works for a small percent of the social class and generally creates a debt based society which generates more economical crisis and higher prices. In the past 30-100 years the average life quality in America seems to decline for the Middle and Lower class and only generates profit for the upper 5-10%.
On a statistical base this may be even viewed as economic growth because Companies create growth but this is only limited to a certain groups of people and guess what? Someone making 100 million a year will make these statistics more appealing while more and more people seem to struggle in the so called technologically developed American freedom.
African Americans commit more crimes than other races of Americans, but their criminal activity is rather low profile and more easily detectable by police. I guess we haven't heard enough of White collar criminals who take advantage on the law system. African American people are the first target in the American prison system as well as in the drug business. It's basically a segregated group which is needed to maintain the low profile criminal activity in the US, which as well generates profit to the system. - The war on drugs is better as it makes drug prices higher so certain sectors of the government.
The same people who make compliments on how Iran, Syria and Russia being Anti-democratic but at the same time admire Saudi Arabia which still basically stuck in the "Middle Ages" by practicing the Sharia law and cutting heads and hands off during daylight for small crimes.
The same way their leaders refuse to educate and integrate millions of people in order to take advantage of their criminal behavior. This also applies for the so called "redneck" community apart AAs.